Portimao test

warthog1 said:

As stated by others they have also lost their ability to use their own ECUs that the engines were presumably designed to include the use of.
Give them back the ability to use those and perhaps their motorcycles would be back at the front.

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Or they could adapt. Global economics and current big sport bike demand indicate that they no longer have the desire to innovate.

The rules are what they are. Whinging about it is counterproductive at best. Change is gonna happen. Adapt, whinge, or lose, up to the Japanese.

Bern1 said:

I subscribed to the MotoGP feed yet again, after I tell myself every year at the end of the season that I’m done with it.

Despite all the equalization, the politics, the money and the woke drama, it’s still the best road racers in the world going up against each other.

Can’t wait for it to start!

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Not sure why the MotoGP feed gets hated on. They have incredible slow motion shots, great camera angles and you can watch prior year races. You just have to put up with Matt Birt. You don't have to watch live and you can watch practices and qualifying. What's not to like?

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warthog1 said:

I guess from their point of view the ecu now specced is the one ducati used.
Theirs is banned.
I am no tech head however have read that the engine was designed around their ecu to enable controlability.
If they now need a new engines as a result that is a significant expense.
Give them back their ecu and that maybe aint required.

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Yeah, I wonder why Yamaha and Honda bother with GP anymore...they have nothing left to prove, and since they get an unfair deal why pay the expense?

Bern1 said:

I subscribed to the MotoGP feed yet again, after I tell myself every year at the end of the season that I’m done with it.

Despite all the equalization, the politics, the money and the woke drama, it’s still the best road racers in the world going up against each other.

Can’t wait for it to start!

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My wife and I have been to only one MotoGP race a few years ago at the season ending Valencia race, we sat in Corner 2, not much to see from that vantage point and was one of the slowest corners (if not the slowest), I think watching from home with the VideoPass is worth it (and a lot cheaper). Of course I cannot judge all the races and corners therein by this one experience but the VideoPass is best for me.

My wife did get a Rossi shirt which she wears, so that was a plus !

Yeah, same whinging when Honda got the 800cc era rolling on a bike designed for Pedrosa. So the rules favour someone else... Choices are still adapt, whinge, or lose

Mick D said:

Yeah, same whinging when Honda got the 800cc era rolling on a bike designed for Pedrosa. So the rules favour someone else... Choices are still adapt, whinge, or lose

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Perhaps we were in different timelines..

I don't recall any sympathy for/complaints on behalf of Honda back then, but rather derision directed at Honda/the Honda engineers for being beaten in a formula for which they were significantly responsible, and certainly no sympathy for Pedrosa who was widely disliked because of the torpedoing of Hayden the previous season. There was as I recall considerable complaint from fans of Rossi +/- Yamaha, that Stoner had an unfair vastly superior bike which rode itself.

I admit to being something of an MM fan these days and would like to see him on a competitive bike, but my criticism is of Dorna who have devised a formula for the purported purposes of equalisation of the grid and cost saving which has done neither. My other point was that these so called equalisation formulae have a tendency to entrench advantages for several years, as with the Mercedes horsepower advantage in F1. If you want to see the current situation as karmic retribution for Honda outspending the field for decades I am fine with that.

Probably the major advantage that Ducati have is that they hired Gigi, and I have no problem with that advantage. The guy is a genius and a winner cf his record at Aprilia also. He looked fairly frustrated for a time, the Ducati had looked like a title winning bike for a number of years prior to last season, and Ducati partly had to wait until last season imo because of the poor man management traditional for Ducati Corse.